He received his Bachelor’s Degree in the Department of Fine Arts, at Hansung University, Seoul in 1998 and subsequently his Master’s Degree in the same university in 2002.

In the early days of his career, he did experiment a wide range of fine arts through a diverse medium of photographs, installation arts and etc. However, he realized that his artistic desire was not fulfilled and then he started to work on painting again.

A little while after he started his painting, he initiatively expanded his venues of artistic activities internationally into Beijing, China which has emerged as the arts’ central market of Asia.

A series of art works, that started about 2 years ago, has drawn so much attention from art galleries in New York as to hold several exhibitions there. A solo exhibition is being planned in New York and Beijing in 2012. These 2 upcoming exhibitions are designed to be opened at the same time in two different countries.

His art works are actively sought after by private and public collectors alike in such places as Korea, France, Beijing, New York, Chicago, and etc.

At present, he is teaching drawing and painting at several universities while actively engaged in his own endeavor of creative artworks.

"Jiye", óleo sobre lienzo / oil on canvas, 116 x 91 cm., 2011

"Si Hyun", óleo sobre lienzo / oil on canvas, 35,75" x 45,75", 2012

His paintings that started in the mid 2000 were influenced by Gerhard Richter, who artistically inspired him during his college years, and 60’s photorealism centered on the U.S. His works still maintain a trait of such modes of expression. However, his artworks show a little bit of difference from the works of pure photorealism. It was because characters appeared in his works are often portrayed and expressed in completely different shapes and images.

He is highly interested in the concept of idealistic beauty which he has pursued for a long time in his art forms. That is why he changes subjects in his works into an aesthetic form that he ideally desires based on their first photographed appearance. Subjects, who were portrayed and expressed this way, came to look completely different. By using photorealism, it is possible to create characters as if they could actually exist. In a way, his form of artworks is a reflection of modern times where there is a blurred line between what is real and what is imagined.

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